JAL Express

nihongo|JAL Express Co., Ltd.|株式会社JALエクスプレス|Kabushiki-gaisha JAL Ekusupuresu is a wholly owned subsidiary airline of Japan Airlines (JAL). It is a low-cost airline operating domestic services. Its main base is Osaka International Airport.cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 96 | date= 2007-04-03]

Code Data

*IATA Code: JC
*ICAO Code: JEX
*Callsign: Janex

History

The airline was established on 1 April 1997 and started operations on 1 July 1998. It began services with a twice daily flight from Osaka to Miyazaki and Kagoshima. It has 357 employees (at March 2007).

Destinations

JAL Express operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at March 2007) :

Hokkaidō

*Sapporo

Honshū

*Chūbu region
**Aichi Prefecture
***Nagoya
*Kansai region
**Hyogo Prefecture
***Kobe
**Osaka Prefecture
***Osaka
*Tōhoku region
**Miyagi Prefecture
***Sendai

Kyūshū

*Kumamoto Prefecture
**Kumamoto
*Nagasaki Prefecture
**Nagasaki
*Ōita Prefecture
**Ōita

Plan to launch international services to China and South Korea in 2009 [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20080409TDY08308.htm] .

Fleet

The JAL Express fleet consists the following aircraft :

*8 Boeing 737-400
*5 McDonnell Douglas MD-81
*1 Boeing 737-800

External links

* [http://www.jal.co.jp/jex/ JAL Express]

References